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GNOME & KDE Developers Go To Battle Over A Name

07-23-2011, 09:10 AM

Phoronix: GNOME & KDE Developers Go To Battle Over A Name

Ahead of the Berlin Desktop Summit, several GNOME and KDE developers have begun a mailing list battle...over a name. In particular, that with GNOME 3.0 their control panel areas is called "System Settings", which is precisely what the KDE developers call their system control area too...

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It exists and it's called YaST but that doesn't change the fact that GNOME used a name that was already taken. KDE?s System Settings exists since years and I don't even get what was wrong with the old Control Center name.

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It exists and it's called YaST but that doesn't change the fact that GNOME used a name that was already taken. KDE?s System Settings exists since years and I don't even get what was wrong with the old Control Center name.

Not really. YaST is for systemwide administration not for desktop specific settings.

And i would propose adding 2 entries:
NativeDE - This one holds the desktop environment name where the app
would be "native". So GNOME, KDE or whatever.
NameNonNative - This one holds the app name when it's shown in a
desktop environment that is not native. When not set fallback to
"Name"

So for example the "System Settings" app in KDE looks somewhat like
this in a .desktop file:

Name=System Settings
NativeDE=KDE
NameNonNative=KDE System Settings

The same applies for gnome system settings and also for the system
monitor (that also has the naming issue)
Isn't this a good solution?